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This is really tough.  Decisions related to productivity should probably be handled by her supervisor.  Unless she reports to you, you will most likely look petty in turning her in, especially in light of your admission of not liking her.  Most companies have a disciplinary process that involves awareness, attempts at correction and formal write-ups before a termination takes place.  Not sure if this is true with your company.  You may want to consider talking to your supervisor or her supervisor before you register a formal complaint with HR.  An official HR complaint generates several processes, including the accused right to face her accuser.  Also, not sure of the laws in your state, but here, if she was terminated, she would be allowed to file for unemployment and then the company would have to prove officially that she was terminated for cause - which would bring you, HR. the supervisors and her into a formal hearing at the Employment Commission and/or Labor Board.  Regardless of how you proceed, make sure your work is exemplary and your attitude absolutely professional so that she cannot come back with complaints against you.  Good luck.  And remember, only you have control over your attitude and how you respond/react to circumstances, so choose to make each day a good one.

 

Sounds like you're handling it in the most professional way possible.  Good luck. 

 I feel for you and your situation.  Watch out that it doesn't backfire on you.  I called myself alerting the upper management at the lead office about the outrageously unprofessional antics of the branch manager and staff of the satellite office I worked in.  I was the only one who was above reproach so when I was terminated it was for a reason that was not my fault (they simply eliminated the position I occupied).  They claim to have a no retaliation policy but that was on paper only.  Be careful telling on others it could result in your termination instead of theirs.  You'll never know why she's doing what she's doing, she may have their permission and you don't know it or maybe something is going on in her personal life that is forcing her to do this and she's trying not to let it interfere with her work.  I wish you all the best.

I know that if I ever see anything inappropriate happening at my next corporate office job, I will look the other way like everyone else is and do my best to keep myself out of it and let the management find out or wait for the person to quit or straighten up.  I've learned my lesson about trying to make things right in an atmosphere where everyone is aware (or not) of what's going on and not doing anything about it.  I've been out of work now for two years as a direct result of trying to do what I believed was in the best interest of the company, clients and other staff who were complaining too.

We are a very small quasi-gov't agency. My dept has only me, my boss and two other people.  In my bosses absence I am in charge. So in that respect I am her superior in this department.  The other co-worker from another department was the first to see her out excercising and she told me she was going to go to the HR manager.  At that point I knew I had to tell my boss and that I should. We get along very well and we respect each other. There is nothing in my own work that would make me nervous. My position is pretty central and I do a pretty good job.

My boss and the HR manager asked each of the three people who saw her to write a statement of what we saw. i kept mine very brief and only said when I arrived to work, what the office was like and when she came in and how she was dressed.

She was then pulled into a meeting with our boss and the HR manager. They asked for an explaination. She said i was mistaken, and the other co-worker was mistaken. She said she was there and working from the time we clocked in. She said we were out to get her. 

They know that she is lying and that she was falsifying her time records. However, they are afraid of being sued so they have written her up. They have taken away her priviledge of flex time. She must now work regular office hours like everyone else.

We share a conference room that has been turned into an office for three (but there are only the two of us in here). And I can say it has been very very quiet since Friday.  She has said nothing to me and I have said nothing to her unless it is work related.  I would love to be challenged by her for what I did. It would give me a chance to stand up for myself.  Instead she has spreak her own version of the story around to her friends in the office.  Most of the people here realize what she is doing and what she has done and they feel bad for me that I still have to share this work space with her.  My boss has said that if the environment down here gets really bad he will move her. but I don't want to make things any more difficult.  I just wish the truth would be known by everyone so that I would not be looked at as the bad guy.

But anyway I have a ton of work piled up because this situation has taken a lot of attention. My boss has confided in me through out and I think he made a mistake but it was his decision.  Thank you for all the feedback and support on the board.

Firing someone without first giving written documented warnings can also lead to a lawsuit!